The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

LadOnTheHill

I'm not sure what brand our camping stoves are. I think they're the sort that are generic and then get branded with a company name. They didn't cost very much at all, they're not a fancy name brand. They're not comparable to a fixed five ring hob, but they're reasonable and might make the difference between hot and cold food. We fetched one out last time we had a powercut, and it was fine. Not great, but it got the pan hot enough to cook in.

I've never thought about petrol being a thing to cook on. Isn't it dangerous? I suppose anything using fuel that burns is dangerous if you do it incorrectly, though. 🤔

Effician

We're all electric with induction hob here, the coleman still makes an appearance though for using the krumkake & waffle irons.

Of course caution is to be used with a petrol stove ( many never get the hang of it) but we get on really well with them , have fed a party of 10 more than once on holiday with just 2 coleman double stoves.

CCW007

When we moved in there was no cooker here so we used a campinggaz stove with two burners and grill underneath for about three months until we got a cooker installed.  Worked pretty well but we did get through several bottles of gas!  

newlywed

I live in a flat and the tenancy agreement has a clause about gas canisters and keeping flammable substances…

OH does have a blow torch for plumbing. We tried toasting teacakes when we had a power cut, but all I can say is there was a definite lingering flavour added to them

We have hexamine stoves and mess tins for emergency, along with cheap dried noodles and instant pots type things. Should be enough to survive for a few days if needed.

Bought extra tea lights today. Use them in the bathroom instead of spray air freshener, but they should also help as emergency lighting - and have lots of tall candles as I bought different ones years back to try and fit them in slim candle holders we had.

Bought high viz arm bands today, mainly for walking on country lanes without pavement, but also useful if streetlights were all out.

Si_Clist

LadOnTheHill said:

... We're trying to think ahead to what might go wrong, such as mains gas or electricity not being available, and look for alternatives.

Depends how far you want to go with this, but there's always self-heating meals.  When work called for us to feed ourselves in the car (usually at night, in the winter!), we swore by the ones we always got from https://www.hotpackmeals.co.uk/

And at risk of stating the obvious, there's plenty of stuff in tins which keeps for ages and can be eaten cold if necessary.

GaleSF63

I wish Heinz vegetable salad still existed. I loved it, and it would have been a great thing to stock up on. 

MingVase

When we moved to our last house we had no cooker ( fell apart in the removal van!) and I had to use a one -ring camp stove for 3 months. I found you can do an amazing variety of one-pot meals if you're hungry enough

CCW007

MingVase said:

When we moved to our last house we had no cooker ( fell apart in the removal van!) and I had to use a one -ring camp stove for 3 months. I found you can do an amazing variety of one-pot meals if you're hungry enough

I now appreciate how blessed I was with a two-ring camp stove!

We were moving from rented to our own house so moved over the course of six weeks but actually "moved in" on Christmas Day - our Christmas dinner was going to be bangers and mash but we hadn't actually got the potato masher with us so it was bangers and smash  

MingVase

We moved in on Hogmanay - and had to call a plumber out at teatime as the water was pouring out of the overflow in the wall... the previous tenant had left the system all open in case it froze. The plumber was not impressed and we had to give him a bottle of whisky away with him because we felt so guilty

Shropshirelass

People survived on one pot cooking for centuries. Saves on washing up, and all goodness of the food is saved and eaten. Anyone interested in developing their own recipes, might be interested in searching 'sea pie', 'potjie kos', and even 'scouse', and work out what your family will enjoy eating as part of your preps.